and it's fitting that Justin Turner stole two bases on the awful TDA and then hit a HR after Seager got on base on a ball that a little leaguer would have fielded
and have been whipping our ass all year. They have to be the favorite to win the World Series at this point. We have one hit tonight. Why are you people torturing yourselves? I actually consider 5 runs over 6 innings pretty good considering how screwed up Matz has been lately.
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
It's an awful stretch... sure. Syndergaard went through an awful stretch in the middle of the season last year and everyone was ready to crucify him. deGrom went through a stretch where he got tattooed earlier this year and people were screaming to trade him while he still had value.
At least with Matz, we are no longer competing for anything. He'll figure it out as good players always do.
and have been whipping our ass all year. They have to be the favorite to win the World Series at this point. We have one hit tonight. Why are you people torturing yourselves? I actually consider 5 runs over 6 innings pretty good considering how screwed up Matz has been lately.
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
He's clearly had control and location issues but if you're lauding his 93 MPH fastball, I'd say think twice about that.
RE: RE: The Dodgers are an absolute juggernaut this year
and have been whipping our ass all year. They have to be the favorite to win the World Series at this point. We have one hit tonight. Why are you people torturing yourselves? I actually consider 5 runs over 6 innings pretty good considering how screwed up Matz has been lately.
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
He's clearly had control and location issues but if you're lauding his 93 MPH fastball, I'd say think twice about that.
"Lauding it??" lol. I've seen him at as high as 96 mph over his last few starts and Ive seen him throw a nice curve and a slider. He never threw as hard as a deGrom or Thor.
Dodgers look like the best team assembled since the 1998 Yankees
so can't take much from how the Mets played against them. However the Mets have to be a playoff team next year or the entire stretch with this young pitching core might be wasted
But if the draft is as good as Shecky is saying it will be... I might change my tune. I firmly believe we will be back next year. We lost too many crucial players to injury this year so it's a punt in 2017. That's fine. Look at the Diamondbacks last year? I think they won 69 games. They came roaring back once they got healthy. The Red Sox had some terrible years over the last decade sprinkled in. Hasn't stopped them from competing the majority of the time.
If its a punt and we are going to be back next year, we might as well have an absolute stud to add to the system as well.
The reason Matz is struggling is that he is not thrwing the slider
That was the difference pitch for him but he can't throw it because of the elbow,
So, he is throwing a lot more curves and changeups and neither pitcher is plus. However, in the long run this will help because the only way to make the secondary stuff consistent is to throw it. But right now he is getting behind with it and then guys are sitting on the fastball.
Lefties that can throw their 100th pitch at 93 mph with good movement don't grow on trees. Matz is potentially still a 2/3 starter if he can stay healthy.
he, like his battery mate, has shown flashes but they're both injury prone and wildly inconsistent. There are those who will talk about injuries as if it's just a bu,p in the road or something that just goes away with time but the reality is, he has serious issues as does anyone comng off of TJ surgery. The surgery doesn't guarantee anything in fact the window of effective pitching coming off of such surgery is a small one and is getting smaller with each passing season and injury
teams called about Harvey but the offers were akin to giving him away. This would be the case with Matz as well given his salary. Can't trade him now, teams aren't giving up fair offers.
and Sandy deciding not to extend him a contract in December 2013 as he was headed down to the Union meetings in San Diego as Mets' player rep. He batted .367 in September of that year as he began working to re-tool his swing. His 2013 salary was $500,000, killer number. Dodgers signed him the next spring for $1mm.
He was devastated at not being tendered a new offer by the Mets that winter, just as he was in September of 2010 (?) after he went 6 for 6 in the final game of the season for Buffalo.
Turner and Murphy in the Mets' infield...nahh!
BBI won't allow NYT hyper links (Gary, what's with that?) so I won't even bother.
low on Matz or Harvey. The situation isn't great, but a rebound and return to form for these guys in 2018 isn't really that hard to see happening. Like Dan said, it's not like anyone is offering anything good anyway.
If 2018 is a repeat of 2017, then clean house in the front office and bring in new people.
down a bit yesterday and IMO didn't look bad against the best team in baseball. Let's see how the kid finishes the season (Harvey too) before burying him.
And lack of creativity have been two accurate accusations of this front office. Being upset with and getting rid of Byrd, Turner etc for "being a bad influence" sure looks foolish now that most teams have moved in that same direction. Behind the curve instead of ahead.
I think it's time we dispelled the myth that the Mets are a Pitching savvy organization, built on developing young Stud Arms. They have traded away any decent Pitcher they ever got their hands on....some of them for returns that were downright laughable.
Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi
Jon Matlack for Willie Montanez
Roger McDowell for Juan Samuel
Scott Kazmir for the wrong Zambrano
Bobby Jones for whatever ??
They got rid of Tom Seaver -- TWICE !!
They ruined the Generation K arms before any of them got 20 wins with the Mets. Craig Swan, for goodness sakes, was plunked in the ribs by his own catcher trying to throw out a runner at 2B....you can't make this stuff up !!
I think it's time we dispelled the myth that the Mets are a Pitching savvy organization, built on developing young Stud Arms. They have traded away any decent Pitcher they ever got their hands on....some of them for returns that were downright laughable.
Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi
Jon Matlack for Willie Montanez
Roger McDowell for Juan Samuel
Scott Kazmir for the wrong Zambrano
Bobby Jones for whatever ??
They got rid of Tom Seaver -- TWICE !!
They ruined the Generation K arms before any of them got 20 wins with the Mets. Craig Swan, for goodness sakes, was plunked in the ribs by his own catcher trying to throw out a runner at 2B....you can't make this stuff up !!
The trades are one thing, but I don't see how injuries are really their fault.
farm system is a bigger concern than the 2017 season. Horrendous seasons happen. It sucks but they need to focus on drafting/development. Obviously part of the issue is trades/promotions but just my own personal opinion... they took a step back when DePo left and was never replaced.
Some of the Injuries are their fault. Who allowed Thor to bulk up over the winter ?? and WTF happened to Harvey ?? Those Gen K guys were racking up 200 innings....in the Minors !! Where's the developmental approach in that ??
I listened to Ron Darling on the FAN last week, and he said he spotted something in Matz's delivery. Let's get a coach to work on that STAT !!
farm system is a bigger concern than the 2017 season. Horrendous seasons happen. It sucks but they need to focus on drafting/development. Obviously part of the issue is trades/promotions but just my own personal opinion... they took a step back when DePo left and was never replaced.
The farm system is a very big concern going forward, but there's still enough here to contend again in 2018 with a little bit of luck and some savvy.
Hopefully they land a stud with their top pick this year and have a nice draft since they'll have a ton of allocation money to spend.
paper the 2016 draft looks like another dud. Wasted so many picks on non-elite college players and they are already on their way to flaming out. It's one thing to top out in AA/AAA but they have multiple reasonably high picks who look DOA.
farm system is a bigger concern than the 2017 season. Horrendous seasons happen. It sucks but they need to focus on drafting/development. Obviously part of the issue is trades/promotions but just my own personal opinion... they took a step back when DePo left and was never replaced.
The farm system is a very big concern going forward, but there's still enough here to contend again in 2018 with a little bit of luck and some savvy.
Hopefully they land a stud with their top pick this year and have a nice draft since they'll have a ton of allocation money to spend.
I agree the current roster with some tweaks can be a contender next season. I'm just saying it gets pretty bleak once Dom comes up. Not being negative just honest.
All this negativity here today, I'm trying to muster the strength to be the usual contrarian lol
There's a ton of talent on the roster for next year
There's a good bunch of financial flexibility for next season
There's a good bunch of filler talent in the system
As much as everyone from top to bottom underperformed this season, it only takes a few barely overachieving to completely change the outlook.
There's still SOME high ceiling talent in the system. With more coming next year.
They'll be SOME fresh blood this offseason.
But I'll never get over the front office ignoring the biggest cheapest Ada's signing possible a couple years ago and not replacing TC.
and Sandy deciding not to extend him a contract in December 2013 as he was headed down to the Union meetings in San Diego as Mets' player rep. He batted .367 in September of that year as he began working to re-tool his swing. His 2013 salary was $500,000, killer number. Dodgers signed him the next spring for $1mm.
He was devastated at not being tendered a new offer by the Mets that winter, just as he was in September of 2010 (?) after he went 6 for 6 in the final game of the season for Buffalo.
Turner and Murphy in the Mets' infield...nahh!
BBI won't allow NYT hyper links (Gary, what's with that?) so I won't even bother.
lol people were absolutely killing both of these guys in 2013 , I actually remember a thread praising Turner not being tendered. An as for Murphy, he could have hit .400 but as soon as he made in a error in the field our douchebag fan base would cry like babies and the POS NY media sucked them off by feeding them what they wanted to hear.
and yet those same fans keep talking on this site...
As for Matz, I'm sure he will re-bound, he has too much talent not to. Personally I'd rather he spend the year working on his secondary pitches an save the elbow. prepare for next year.
I don't think anyone around here said "glad they cut him". I'm pretty sure it was more of "why'd they cut him?" It made no sense to the average fan to cut him. There were other reasons they moved on - but don't think anyone was glad the team moved on. And there isn't a person in baseball that saw him as a starter yet alone a STAR. So other than revisionist history - hard to understand that criticism.
I don't think anyone around here said "glad they cut him". I'm pretty sure it was more of "why'd they cut him?" It made no sense to the average fan to cut him. There were other reasons they moved on - but don't think anyone was glad the team moved on. And there isn't a person in baseball that saw him as a starter yet alone a STAR. So other than revisionist history - hard to understand that criticism.
I hated Turner I was glad they non-tendered him. My hatred of him was irrational because I hated how he looked.
But realistically where were they going to put him?
He was a 28-year old journeyman, who looked like Chris Elliott and they had Wright at 3B, Murphy at 2B, Duda at 1B and Flores waiting in the wings at SS with Tejada (coming off an awful season, but still young) and Turner isn't a SS anyway.
So tender the guy to be a super sub/Joe Mcewing utility guy?
He was never even above average with the Mets.
Hindsight, I was wrong, as wrong as I was on Murphy, but at the time I had no issue with the decision at all.
Yeah, I think they missed the boat on Turner. And I will fully say, if Turner were never let go, he would have never been more than a super sub for the Mets. I don't think he ever would have approached what he became had he reamained a Met.
Turner wasn't let go because the team didn't realize or internally scout the "talent" and misjudged it. He wasn't let go to save money. He was let go for other reasons. And the front office badly misjudged the direction hitters were about to embark on.
Dom graduates I'm not even sure who the Mets top 3 prospects are. (Not including Szapucki who will miss 2018) I guess Gimenez, Peterson and one of Nido/Lindsay (disappointing year)/Dunn (awful year). Yikes.
or should be, and Flores is a lot more likable to me (personally) than Turner - maybe because Flores is home grown and I always appreciate Mets prospects who succeed more than castaways.
for whatever reason, like I said irrational or whatever, every time I saw Turner up I felt like it would be an out, a GIDP, some unuseful rally killing at bat and he was nothing special in the field.
The losses continue to pile up in a bad year but they keep trotting out these old guys. Put the young kids in and if you lose more- great you get better picks.
Would be nice to see this FO make a deal similar to the Gyorko/Jay swap. The Cardinals ended up with an above average regular coming off a down period. Is that asking too much from this FO?
Would be nice to see this FO make a deal similar to the Gyorko/Jay swap. The Cardinals ended up with an above average regular coming off a down period. Is that asking too much from this FO?
Turner wasn't let go because the team didn't realize or internally scout the "talent" and misjudged it. He wasn't let go to save money. He was let go for other reasons. And the front office badly misjudged the direction hitters were about to embark on.
That last sentence seems to be the key. There have been many arguments about this roster over the past 2 years, sometimes when the record was good and sometimes bad, around a core theme of over-reliance on the home run. When they got the chance to adjust the past 2 offseasons they doubled down with more of the same. Like you said, good news is that this offseason they have flexibility to make long overdue changes. Are they capable/creative enough to do so successfully?
Sadly, I don't think the answer is yes anymore. Last offseason was supposed to be the offseason they focused on getting more athletic, more well rounded players. And they not only didn't, but to use your word - doubled down.
The losses continue to pile up in a bad year but they keep trotting out these old guys. Put the young kids in and if you lose more- great you get better picks.
Come on. It is so painfully obvious why the youngsters aren't playing. Yet.
of the starting pitching my two biggest concerns coming in.
Good to see Darren O'Day on here, hated when the Mets let him go (for no good reason), and good to see Clippard, Benoit, and some other options discussed for then this off-season. but bad to see how bad Smoker and Salas have been.
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Mets have 2 RPs that are the top 4 worst.
They've pitched 79.2 innings already.
Maybe 2018 we open the pocketbook to get real MLB RPs.
#Mets
not that ERA is a great way to measure RP's, normally because it's too skewed positively in their favor since they can come in with men on base, allow them to score, and not have it impact their ERA.
I saw Murphy as a brain dead baserunner, a poor fielder, and a guy who had a great hot streak in the playoffs.
I was also bothered by Turners extremely odd looks. He reminded me so much of the Caveman in the Geico commercial. I never thought he would amount to anything more than a utility guy.
The point here though is that I have never worked in any capacity in professional baseball, so I'm not really accountable for my misjudgment of these guys.The Mets FO, full of highly paid, experienced executives is or should be accountable.
...he doesn't want to pitch if he gets a pimple on his arm and falls apart on the mound anytime adversity pops up. He just might not amount to anything.
I lay part of the blame for Turner and Murphy squarely at Jeff Wilpon's feet. Didn't Jeffy comment about Ginger's grooming at one point ?? I don't care if Turner looked like Tarzan -- he hit at every level in the minors. You can't find a place for a guy like that on your team ??
And Murph's disagreement about the "gay Lifestyle" must have got Jeffy's knickers in a twist. I would expect nothing less from a devout Christian like Murph. But he was Banished from the kingdom for those few comments.
There was no outcry when Turner left (I don't think)
As for Murphy, I admit I was one Mets fan who was wrong about him.
But there are a couple true statements about him at one point in time. He was always a very good hitter without a position. He was always an adventure in the field while here, and while he had a flair for pulling off a difficult dramatic play, he would often boot the easy ones and seemed to lack good instincts. I agreed with Gary Cohen during his now infamous "net negative" interview with Joe and Evan during 2015 postseason. I think many thought they were watching an ok player on a fun and magical postseason ride.
In hindsight, as it turned out, it seems that Kevin Long turned Murphy into an impact offensive player and we were watching the very beginning of it that postseason.
That it turned out to be the Nationals who lucked into him, is now a part of the typical Mets tortured history. Lets not forget that Murphy was basically the Nats last option for 2b that offseason. If Murphy was picked up by Cleveland (for argument's sake) we are all sitting here a little less tore up by letting him go.
RE: I had no issue getting rid of Murphy and Turner
I saw Murphy as a brain dead baserunner, a poor fielder, and a guy who had a great hot streak in the playoffs.
I was also bothered by Turners extremely odd looks. He reminded me so much of the Caveman in the Geico commercial. I never thought he would amount to anything more than a utility guy.
The point here though is that I have never worked in any capacity in professional baseball, so I'm not really accountable for my misjudgment of these guys.The Mets FO, full of highly paid, experienced executives is or should be accountable.
If you don't have the knowledge base you can only give your opinion as an opinion. Some people on this board were living on a make believe planet where they knew better then Mets management or anyone else and threw all kinds of meaningless stats to back it up. An look 3 years later both those players elevated their play and have driven their teams to the postseason playoff birth.
Is the incredible talent they have amassed behind the scenes. Up and down the franchise it's stacked with incredible people. The way it was supposed to be done here
He was always described to me as light-hitting, slick fielding, but in AA as a 22-year old (so not old for the league he's batting .292 with a .792 OPS so no power, but he's got a nice .374 OBP with 50 BB to 46K's.
seems the bat, while not ideal without any power, is better than from what I'd read.
Can he be a major league regular? 2B? He doesn't seem to have any speed either, so without any speed or power and not a huge hit profile, seems dismal, but getting on base and not striking out are important too.
He was always described to me as light-hitting, slick fielding, but in AA as a 22-year old (so not old for the league he's batting .292 with a .792 OPS so no power, but he's got a nice .374 OBP with 50 BB to 46K's.
seems the bat, while not ideal without any power, is better than from what I'd read.
Can he be a major league regular? 2B? He doesn't seem to have any speed either, so without any speed or power and not a huge hit profile, seems dismal, but getting on base and not striking out are important too.
Backup MI. Not enough bat to be a regular at 2b. That has become a major offensive position and given the fact the Mets don't figure to have plus offense at 3b either it's a rough profile. No speed, no power. Just very hard to point out "plus" guys at 2b with that profile ie guys you want starting.
104 wRC+, .335 wOBA that's good for 5th in both categories on his own team... a really bad team no less. Gives you an idea how bad David Thompson has been... a 3b hitting worse than Guillorme, Thompson is a full year older.
Lower minors that can be impact players that we can get excited about? Someone mentioned that in a couple of years their farm system would be top 10 (I believe ). Their system is so bad right now it's hard to imagine that can/will be the case.
Lower minors that can be impact players that we can get excited about? Someone mentioned that in a couple of years their farm system would be top 10 (I believe ). Their system is so bad right now it's hard to imagine that can/will be the case.
Highest upside are guys like
Dunn (awful season)
Lindsay (disappointing season)
Vientos (very far away)
Gimenez
Szapucki (will miss 2018)
Mauricio (very far away)
I believe Shecky's top 10 comment was at least in part due to picking high in the draft this upcoming season. They are not particularly strong with low level talent either.
and Bashlor have flashed out of the pen. Should be tough calls for the 40 man/Rule 5. I think both are on the level of the guys they got back at the deadline.
see no reason to have confidence in Harvey or Wheeler being any better or more reliable in 2018.
Wheeler has never really been good to begin with so agree with you there.
I think a case can be made for Harvey to rebound and that his stuff might regain a bit more bite being another year removed from an extremely major surgery. At least we'll get a chance to see how Harvey looks for the last 5-6 weeks of the season.
see no reason to have confidence in Harvey or Wheeler being any better or more reliable in 2018.
Wheeler has never really been good to begin with so agree with you there.
I think a case can be made for Harvey to rebound and that his stuff might regain a bit more bite being another year removed from an extremely major surgery. At least we'll get a chance to see how Harvey looks for the last 5-6 weeks of the season.
I'm not saying it's impossible they pitch better in 2018. I'm just saying I don't see any reason to be "confident" of this fact. Both extremely injury prone and as you said in Wheeler's case he's actually never been particularly great. Great pure stuff maybe. Your Harvey "theory"/feeling makes sense and certainly is possible but would anyone confidently pencil in either of these 2 for 175+ strong innings next season?
a limited track record but the two highest profile TOS guys in 2017 did not fare well. Hughes/Harvey. Karns and Thornburg will try and come back from it in 2018
a limited track record but the two highest profile TOS guys in 2017 did not fare well. Hughes/Harvey. Karns and Thornburg will try and come back from it in 2018
and did either of them have TJS too?
Not saying the two are in any way related, but just curious.
a limited track record but the two highest profile TOS guys in 2017 did not fare well. Hughes/Harvey. Karns and Thornburg will try and come back from it in 2018
and did either of them have TJS too?
Not saying the two are in any way related, but just curious.
can't be "confident" in Harvey for 2018 (absent a very promising end to this season) but I guess my case is at least enough not to write him off yet.
TJ and TOS is a really tough combination for sure but the optimist would say that (i) Harvey recovered 100% from the TJ given his dominance in 2015 and (2) that he's had TOS at a young enough age, and after the procedure has had some refinement, that his prognosis should be better than the very small sample size of blah results that we've seen.
Harvey's last 6 weeks will have a big impact on the Mets 2018 outlook IMO. Rosario/Smith more important long term, but for 2018 alone, Harvey is the highest variance player on the team (with Cespedes being second).
If Harvey could get past the initial shock of being asked
I was thinking Thor would be the better candidate, if you believe his velocity makes him more injury prone and he's a ticking time bomb, wouldn't closer, like Chapman for example, be better for him?
I don't think Harvey (2017 version) misses enough bats.
and it's fitting that Justin Turner stole two bases on the awful TDA and then hit a HR after Seager got on base on a ball that a little leaguer would have fielded
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
Glad the OP is not in charge of this team. Matz ... will be fine.
It's an awful stretch... sure. Syndergaard went through an awful stretch in the middle of the season last year and everyone was ready to crucify him. deGrom went through a stretch where he got tattooed earlier this year and people were screaming to trade him while he still had value.
At least with Matz, we are no longer competing for anything. He'll figure it out as good players always do.
Exactly what I just thought of. lol
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
He's clearly had control and location issues but if you're lauding his 93 MPH fastball, I'd say think twice about that.
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and have been whipping our ass all year. They have to be the favorite to win the World Series at this point. We have one hit tonight. Why are you people torturing yourselves? I actually consider 5 runs over 6 innings pretty good considering how screwed up Matz has been lately.
His velocity and stuff are still there. Zero reason to shut him down. He needs innings and to work through this.
He's clearly had control and location issues but if you're lauding his 93 MPH fastball, I'd say think twice about that.
"Lauding it??" lol. I've seen him at as high as 96 mph over his last few starts and Ive seen him throw a nice curve and a slider. He never threw as hard as a deGrom or Thor.
I m surprised the Houston GM did so little at the deadline.
0.5 game out of 5th place
If its a punt and we are going to be back next year, we might as well have an absolute stud to add to the system as well.
So, he is throwing a lot more curves and changeups and neither pitcher is plus. However, in the long run this will help because the only way to make the secondary stuff consistent is to throw it. But right now he is getting behind with it and then guys are sitting on the fastball.
Lefties that can throw their 100th pitch at 93 mph with good movement don't grow on trees. Matz is potentially still a 2/3 starter if he can stay healthy.
He was devastated at not being tendered a new offer by the Mets that winter, just as he was in September of 2010 (?) after he went 6 for 6 in the final game of the season for Buffalo.
Turner and Murphy in the Mets' infield...nahh!
BBI won't allow NYT hyper links (Gary, what's with that?) so I won't even bother.
If 2018 is a repeat of 2017, then clean house in the front office and bring in new people.
Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi
Jon Matlack for Willie Montanez
Roger McDowell for Juan Samuel
Scott Kazmir for the wrong Zambrano
Bobby Jones for whatever ??
They got rid of Tom Seaver -- TWICE !!
They ruined the Generation K arms before any of them got 20 wins with the Mets. Craig Swan, for goodness sakes, was plunked in the ribs by his own catcher trying to throw out a runner at 2B....you can't make this stuff up !!
Nolan Ryan for Jim Fregosi
Jon Matlack for Willie Montanez
Roger McDowell for Juan Samuel
Scott Kazmir for the wrong Zambrano
Bobby Jones for whatever ??
They got rid of Tom Seaver -- TWICE !!
They ruined the Generation K arms before any of them got 20 wins with the Mets. Craig Swan, for goodness sakes, was plunked in the ribs by his own catcher trying to throw out a runner at 2B....you can't make this stuff up !!
The trades are one thing, but I don't see how injuries are really their fault.
I listened to Ron Darling on the FAN last week, and he said he spotted something in Matz's delivery. Let's get a coach to work on that STAT !!
And without excellence actually
The farm system is a very big concern going forward, but there's still enough here to contend again in 2018 with a little bit of luck and some savvy.
Hopefully they land a stud with their top pick this year and have a nice draft since they'll have a ton of allocation money to spend.
The Mets need a culture/philosophy change in a pretty bad way right now. Starts at the top.
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farm system is a bigger concern than the 2017 season. Horrendous seasons happen. It sucks but they need to focus on drafting/development. Obviously part of the issue is trades/promotions but just my own personal opinion... they took a step back when DePo left and was never replaced.
The farm system is a very big concern going forward, but there's still enough here to contend again in 2018 with a little bit of luck and some savvy.
Hopefully they land a stud with their top pick this year and have a nice draft since they'll have a ton of allocation money to spend.
I agree the current roster with some tweaks can be a contender next season. I'm just saying it gets pretty bleak once Dom comes up. Not being negative just honest.
There's a ton of talent on the roster for next year
There's a good bunch of financial flexibility for next season
There's a good bunch of filler talent in the system
As much as everyone from top to bottom underperformed this season, it only takes a few barely overachieving to completely change the outlook.
There's still SOME high ceiling talent in the system. With more coming next year.
They'll be SOME fresh blood this offseason.
But I'll never get over the front office ignoring the biggest cheapest Ada's signing possible a couple years ago and not replacing TC.
He was devastated at not being tendered a new offer by the Mets that winter, just as he was in September of 2010 (?) after he went 6 for 6 in the final game of the season for Buffalo.
Turner and Murphy in the Mets' infield...nahh!
BBI won't allow NYT hyper links (Gary, what's with that?) so I won't even bother.
lol people were absolutely killing both of these guys in 2013 , I actually remember a thread praising Turner not being tendered. An as for Murphy, he could have hit .400 but as soon as he made in a error in the field our douchebag fan base would cry like babies and the POS NY media sucked them off by feeding them what they wanted to hear.
and yet those same fans keep talking on this site...
As for Matz, I'm sure he will re-bound, he has too much talent not to. Personally I'd rather he spend the year working on his secondary pitches an save the elbow. prepare for next year.
They'll be top ten in a year+. But this offseason I still say 25th
Since July 9 & among SPs, Steven Matz owns the worst ERA (11.03), AVG (.411), OBP (.449), SLG (.700), & WHIP (2.20) in the majors. #Mets
I hated Turner I was glad they non-tendered him. My hatred of him was irrational because I hated how he looked.
But realistically where were they going to put him?
He was a 28-year old journeyman, who looked like Chris Elliott and they had Wright at 3B, Murphy at 2B, Duda at 1B and Flores waiting in the wings at SS with Tejada (coming off an awful season, but still young) and Turner isn't a SS anyway.
So tender the guy to be a super sub/Joe Mcewing utility guy?
He was never even above average with the Mets.
Hindsight, I was wrong, as wrong as I was on Murphy, but at the time I had no issue with the decision at all.
But as is our luck, as soon as we cut ties with players who are average/good here, they go onto somehow turn into stars elsewhere against all odds.
Can't make it up.
for whatever reason, like I said irrational or whatever, every time I saw Turner up I felt like it would be an out, a GIDP, some unuseful rally killing at bat and he was nothing special in the field.
Personally I loved both Murphy and Turner and it was even more a kick in the balls how the Mets let money get in the way on Ben Zorbrist.
Now I have to wonder if we see Duda go on and become a 40 HR guy.
Ummmm. Yes
Grandal- Padres
Alex Wood- Braves
Turner- Mets
Taylor- Seattle
Forsythe-Tampa
Hill- Red Sox
McCarthy- Yankees
Hernandez- Marlins
That last sentence seems to be the key. There have been many arguments about this roster over the past 2 years, sometimes when the record was good and sometimes bad, around a core theme of over-reliance on the home run. When they got the chance to adjust the past 2 offseasons they doubled down with more of the same. Like you said, good news is that this offseason they have flexibility to make long overdue changes. Are they capable/creative enough to do so successfully?
Come on. It is so painfully obvious why the youngsters aren't playing. Yet.
Good to see Darren O'Day on here, hated when the Mets let him go (for no good reason), and good to see Clippard, Benoit, and some other options discussed for then this off-season. but bad to see how bad Smoker and Salas have been.
Mets have 2 RPs that are the top 4 worst.
They've pitched 79.2 innings already.
Maybe 2018 we open the pocketbook to get real MLB RPs.
#Mets
not that ERA is a great way to measure RP's, normally because it's too skewed positively in their favor since they can come in with men on base, allow them to score, and not have it impact their ERA.
I was also bothered by Turners extremely odd looks. He reminded me so much of the Caveman in the Geico commercial. I never thought he would amount to anything more than a utility guy.
The point here though is that I have never worked in any capacity in professional baseball, so I'm not really accountable for my misjudgment of these guys.The Mets FO, full of highly paid, experienced executives is or should be accountable.
And Murph's disagreement about the "gay Lifestyle" must have got Jeffy's knickers in a twist. I would expect nothing less from a devout Christian like Murph. But he was Banished from the kingdom for those few comments.
But there are a couple true statements about him at one point in time. He was always a very good hitter without a position. He was always an adventure in the field while here, and while he had a flair for pulling off a difficult dramatic play, he would often boot the easy ones and seemed to lack good instincts. I agreed with Gary Cohen during his now infamous "net negative" interview with Joe and Evan during 2015 postseason. I think many thought they were watching an ok player on a fun and magical postseason ride.
In hindsight, as it turned out, it seems that Kevin Long turned Murphy into an impact offensive player and we were watching the very beginning of it that postseason.
That it turned out to be the Nationals who lucked into him, is now a part of the typical Mets tortured history. Lets not forget that Murphy was basically the Nats last option for 2b that offseason. If Murphy was picked up by Cleveland (for argument's sake) we are all sitting here a little less tore up by letting him go.
I was also bothered by Turners extremely odd looks. He reminded me so much of the Caveman in the Geico commercial. I never thought he would amount to anything more than a utility guy.
The point here though is that I have never worked in any capacity in professional baseball, so I'm not really accountable for my misjudgment of these guys.The Mets FO, full of highly paid, experienced executives is or should be accountable.
If you don't have the knowledge base you can only give your opinion as an opinion. Some people on this board were living on a make believe planet where they knew better then Mets management or anyone else and threw all kinds of meaningless stats to back it up. An look 3 years later both those players elevated their play and have driven their teams to the postseason playoff birth.
Noah Syndergaard, aiming for September return, says body has never felt better http://dlvr.it/PcSDh1
The disadvantage goes beyond the playoffs and NL teams not typically having prototypical DHs, it's roster building too.
.@stluciemets 1B Peter Alonso has been named Florida State League Player of the Month for July. #mets
The disadvantage goes beyond the playoffs and NL teams not typically having prototypical DHs, it's roster building too.
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.@stluciemets 1B Peter Alonso has been named Florida State League Player of the Month for July. #mets
Not very good...
He was always described to me as light-hitting, slick fielding, but in AA as a 22-year old (so not old for the league he's batting .292 with a .792 OPS so no power, but he's got a nice .374 OBP with 50 BB to 46K's.
seems the bat, while not ideal without any power, is better than from what I'd read.
Can he be a major league regular? 2B? He doesn't seem to have any speed either, so without any speed or power and not a huge hit profile, seems dismal, but getting on base and not striking out are important too.
He was always described to me as light-hitting, slick fielding, but in AA as a 22-year old (so not old for the league he's batting .292 with a .792 OPS so no power, but he's got a nice .374 OBP with 50 BB to 46K's.
seems the bat, while not ideal without any power, is better than from what I'd read.
Can he be a major league regular? 2B? He doesn't seem to have any speed either, so without any speed or power and not a huge hit profile, seems dismal, but getting on base and not striking out are important too.
Backup MI. Not enough bat to be a regular at 2b. That has become a major offensive position and given the fact the Mets don't figure to have plus offense at 3b either it's a rough profile. No speed, no power. Just very hard to point out "plus" guys at 2b with that profile ie guys you want starting.
104 wRC+, .335 wOBA that's good for 5th in both categories on his own team... a really bad team no less. Gives you an idea how bad David Thompson has been... a 3b hitting worse than Guillorme, Thompson is a full year older.
Highest upside are guys like
Dunn (awful season)
Lindsay (disappointing season)
Vientos (very far away)
Gimenez
Szapucki (will miss 2018)
Mauricio (very far away)
I believe Shecky's top 10 comment was at least in part due to picking high in the draft this upcoming season. They are not particularly strong with low level talent either.
Only guy other than Smith in the minors I find interesting is Gimenez.
Szapucki TJS
the disappointments of Dunn and Lindsay
the emergence of potential like Humphreys and then yep you guessed it, injured.
I was looking forward to Merandy Gonzalez and then he's inexplicably dealt for a run of the mill to bad bullpen arm.
Nothing worse than being a bottom 5 team with a bottom 5 farm system. Things sure changed quickly for the Mets.
Of course most of the major league failure can be traced to injury which you hope doesn't repeat itself, but like Red in Shawshank Redemption said
let's "hope" Andy was right and not Red about hope.
Rosario
Cespedes
Smith
Syndergaard
DeGrom
Is not bad
Especially with a plethora of high upside players coming off injury and a lot of cash to spend.
I can't imagine Matz, Wheeler, Harvey, Gsvllman performing as badly
Wheeler has never really been good to begin with so agree with you there.
I think a case can be made for Harvey to rebound and that his stuff might regain a bit more bite being another year removed from an extremely major surgery. At least we'll get a chance to see how Harvey looks for the last 5-6 weeks of the season.
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see no reason to have confidence in Harvey or Wheeler being any better or more reliable in 2018.
Wheeler has never really been good to begin with so agree with you there.
I think a case can be made for Harvey to rebound and that his stuff might regain a bit more bite being another year removed from an extremely major surgery. At least we'll get a chance to see how Harvey looks for the last 5-6 weeks of the season.
I'm not saying it's impossible they pitch better in 2018. I'm just saying I don't see any reason to be "confident" of this fact. Both extremely injury prone and as you said in Wheeler's case he's actually never been particularly great. Great pure stuff maybe. Your Harvey "theory"/feeling makes sense and certainly is possible but would anyone confidently pencil in either of these 2 for 175+ strong innings next season?
Not to mention his other malady's like his urinary tract infection or whatever it was that made headlines.
Harvey has to be the poster boy of the 2014 - 2017 Mets, such hope to such despair so quickly.
and did either of them have TJS too?
Not saying the two are in any way related, but just curious.
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a limited track record but the two highest profile TOS guys in 2017 did not fare well. Hughes/Harvey. Karns and Thornburg will try and come back from it in 2018
and did either of them have TJS too?
Not saying the two are in any way related, but just curious.
I don't believe either has had TJ previously.
TJ and TOS is a really tough combination for sure but the optimist would say that (i) Harvey recovered 100% from the TJ given his dominance in 2015 and (2) that he's had TOS at a young enough age, and after the procedure has had some refinement, that his prognosis should be better than the very small sample size of blah results that we've seen.
Harvey's last 6 weeks will have a big impact on the Mets 2018 outlook IMO. Rosario/Smith more important long term, but for 2018 alone, Harvey is the highest variance player on the team (with Cespedes being second).
I was thinking Thor would be the better candidate, if you believe his velocity makes him more injury prone and he's a ticking time bomb, wouldn't closer, like Chapman for example, be better for him?
I don't think Harvey (2017 version) misses enough bats.
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I saw this earlier if there's a more on cue broadcast of a LLWS at-bat I haven't heard it.